Thirty-Sixth Class Period: Organizing Note Cards

Students submitted note cards twenty-six to forty at the beginning of class.

Mr. Stone wrote instructions for organizing their note cards on the board.

Once you have finished your forty minimum note cards, complete the following steps:

Divide the cards into stacks by using your secondary/subtopic questions' keywords.

Organize each secondary/subtopic stack and separately rubberband each stack.

Check to make sure you have a diversity of sources used in each stack (two minimum, preferably three or more). Each stack will likely become a paragraph in your small paper (three to five pages).

Consider whether you have enough material--Does your material adequately answer your primary question?

Consider whether your five (or more) secondary questions fully/adequately answer your primary question.

Take more notes as needed.

Discard irrelevant notes. (I would not actually throw them out yet.)

Write a rough draft of an outline.



Homework: Review for tomorrow's quiz over Vocabulary Energizers chapters one to four.